Tag Archives: intellectual freedom

Every year, especially in library land, we celebrate the intellectual freedom rights we are granted under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedom. Meaning we can provide YOU access to a diverse range of reading materials, online and in print! However, schools and libraries often receive challenges from members of the community that try to censor or ban certain materials.

What types of things have been challenged in Canadian libraries?

Written in Blood by John Wilson

This book was restricted in a K-12 school to students below grade 8 due to a complaint because of :

Violence

Racism

Age-inappropriateness

The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, Book ) by Philip Pullman

Library patron complained that this title should be burned or at least moved to the Adult section because:

Satanism

Occult

Violence

Religious viewpoint

Essex County Volume 1: Tales from the Farm by Jeff Lemire

This Teen/Adult Graphic Novel received a complaint by a library patron for having shocking and offensive language.